A Fossil on the Great Highway

The Great Highway at Pacheco
Outer Sunset

Fossil by Mary Chomenko Hinckley – 1989

 A cast bronze medallion inset into the sidewalk depicts the history of the Ocean Beach and incorporates elements discovered or retrieved from the neighborhood into the design.

According to Mary’s website: Her work seeks to illuminate the hidden relationships between found objects. Darwin discovered order in nature’s chaos, Surrealists sought the same; trying to distill sense in nature. The juxtaposition of images and objects from disparate locales generates new insights into the interrelationships between nature and civilization.

Found objects, bits and bytes from Silicon Valley junk bins, building blocks of our generation; the unresolved tension in a bird captured mid-flight; the subtle geometry of a distant landscape and the patterns that define it and it’s peoples; these elements together reveal a new order and visual reality that I continue to explore.

EDUCATION
1982 Master of Fine Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1978-79 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA
1977 Ukrainian Studies (Summer Program), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1973 Bachelor of Arts, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

 

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